I remember creating Captain Birdseye and making him my main rival for career mode, back in the day. Ah, memories. The character creator is most of the fun, to be honest. Bah to this game, I say, although to be fair I doubt I'm the target audience these days anyway. Reply+1

they do say prominently that they have a horror of "the social stuff" being used for its own sake, and that you'll basically be playing a single player game with occasional interactions (like if you're drifting in space and broadcast a distress call, maybe another player will save you). Reply+2

There are legal requirements surrounding age ratings in many countries, while there is absolutely no legal oversight of what age you type into your console. In many countries rating agencies rate everything that's on the disk, locked by DLC key or not, and require the publisher to disclose, and give the examiners access to, everything. Putting an age-gated tame version on the disk isn't going to change the rating if there's a full-gore version on there too. Reply+6

I can't believe that was 4 years ago, (which means I must have stopped playing WOW even longer ago as EVE was my WOW-methadone). I still miss you guys. (More than I miss spinning my ship in station waiting for something to happen) Reply+4

To be clear, this isn't anything to do with "nanny state". It's functionally impossible for a game to not receive a PEGI 18+; PEGI never censor or ban games. This is a case of the publisher deciding for themselves to cut some content in order to get a 16+. Reply+1

I rather liked the co-op, and it might be worth pointing out you can get two copies for £18, two for the price of one-and-a-half. I'm not sure how much replay value there is in it though - there's maybe 6 hours of content there. Reply0

Grammar fail: "blamed online gaming on the incident" should be "blamed online gaming for the incident" or "blamed the incident on online gaming".

Unless you're trying to say that the root cause of online gaming, a pastime that has been going on across four continents for a decade and more, was somehow this one violent attack by a ned in Clydebank; perhaps it caused time ripples or something. Reply+7

I don't want to hurt Nintendoites' feelings but nobody particularly wants the underpowered, gimmicky, this-gen-and-a-half console, and very few publishers are willing to bet much on its success. Reply-3

the Talisman board game was unbalanced and a bit bum; only good because there wasn't much else out there. (But then again, there wasn't much out there, so I guess that made it good).
Now there is a great deal of much out there, so it's not good. Reply0

process is probably better - but people often use 'throes' for creative endeavours like a difficult second album or a novel, so you'd have had plenty of support from the corpus.
I just hate seeing 'throws' for 'throes', or 'hoard' for 'horde' (or vice versa). I'm a peever. Reply0

The Guild functionality is heinously broken, but that's actually pretty minor. The overflow thing not working perfectly is mildly annoying, but again it's pretty minor.
Their actually having the game running well and staying up through a massive launch, with only very occasional "could not contact the login server" errors which tend to be brief, is genuinely impressive.

That'll do, pig.

Whenever I see complaints I have to remember that not everyone is from the past like I am, and so they never played MMOs at launch in the Olden Days. Reply+12

WAIT A MINUTE!
It's just the Norn Female voice actor who's shit at voice acting? I've been glumly sitting through the cutscenes thinking the whole game had shitty voice acting, when it's just the one race/sex combination I chose?

Looks like EA have hit on a pretty solid PR strategy: "we're the 800-pound gorilla with the power to crush anyone we feel like, and people hate us for it - let's find some genuinely unlikeable people to crush, and then people will like us". Reply+1

"I didn't even know that it was storing my information, and even if that thought had entered my head I would have thought there would be something in place so it wasn't so easy to spend money."

There are several somethings in place.
Not to mention some other things called "bank statements". And if that's his actual statement he's with Santander, who have perfectly adequate online banking which makes it very easy to check your account. I check mine several times a month, and I am rather lazy and complacent when it comes to finances.

Good old Peter Molyneux, spilling a load of bullshit hype into the eager ears of the press who lap it up and regurgitate it as though it's news.
(Yes, this mixed metaphor would require the press to lap things up using their ears. Shut up).

I would very much like it if Peter Molyneux would just kindly shut the fuck up. Reply+5

"The new system, which should be in place by January 2013, brings games into line with how movies are rated and distributed in the country.
"The passage of this bill will no doubt be welcomed by adult gamers all across Australia," added shadow attorney-general George Brandis. "The industry has been waiting for this change for some time."

"finally brings in" is a little premature.
So you're premature, and you can't even tell if it's in yet... Reply-12

Still haven't finished my "proper" playthrough of 2 (the one where I save everyone) and can't be arsed transferring the save to my new PC. Thinking about this, it seems I care about the character's face (pointy-faced, red-hair, not too different from the generic ME1 femshep but the face of the character to me).
Finding out I can't currently use the "proper" face has put getting this further onto the back burner. Reply0